1: Arthur Brooks, the author and Harvard Happiness Professor, arrived in his hometown of Seattle just before midnight. The taxi ride from the airport to…
1: The Russian cosmonaut Gherman Titov was the second man to orbit the Earth. In 1962, the year after his achievement, he visited the World’s…
1: “My parents were, in many ways, the Odd Couple,” Arthur Brooks writes in The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of…
1: Arthur Brooks was four years old. “My dad had to visit a sick friend and took me with him,” Arthur writes in his new…
1: When you’re searching for something important in life, it helps to answer two questions. “The first is general; the second, specific,” Arthur Brooks writes…
1: Human beings are really good at solving technical problems and answering specific, hard questions. This ability has driven extraordinary progress in science and economics…
1: Happiness researcher Arthur Brooks was interviewing “a young striver” for his book The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness.…
1: Arthur Brooks is a specialist in the science of happiness. But in the fall of 2019, he wasn’t feeling very happy himself. “I felt…
1: Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about. Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations.…
For the past two weeks, we’ve been looking at joy through the lens of Kelly McGonigal’s new book Joy is a Risk Worth Taking. In…